Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

by Bruce Rich

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite. By funding development projects and programs that warm the planet and destroy critical natural resources on which the poor depend, the Bank has been hurting the very...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610911849
• ISBN13: 9781610911849
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"